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Authorising History

Gestures of Authorship in Fourteenth-Century English Historiography

By: Nicole Nyffenegger

£44.99

This book explores the strategies Middle English authors used to authorise their historical works. It investigates the "anglicising" of history around 1300, which gave new audiences access to the past, previously excluded by Latin and French texts.

This book explores the strategies Middle English authors used to authorise their historical works. It investigates the “anglicising” of history around 1300, which gave new audiences access to the past, previously excluded by Latin and French texts.

1812 Echoes

The Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic History, Culture and Politics

Edited By: Stephen G.H. Roberts, Adam Sharman

£54.99

The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain's legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.

The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain’s legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.

Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space

Edited By: Oliviu Felecan

£69.99

This volume analyses names and name-giving in public space from a global, intercultural perspective. It adopts a multidisciplinary viewpoint, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, and politics to cover everything from place names to nicknames.

Local and Global Understandings of Creativities

Multipart Music Making and the Construction of Ideas, Contexts and Contents

Edited By: Ardian Ahmedaja

£49.99

Focusing on creators rather than the object, this volume explores the "polyphony of voices" in music making. Based on fieldwork, it examines how musicians balance personal goals with group cohesion in diverse secular and religious traditions.

Focusing on creators rather than the object, this volume explores the “polyphony of voices” in music making. Based on fieldwork, it examines how musicians balance personal goals with group cohesion in diverse secular and religious traditions.

Social Capital in Organizations

An Exchange Theory Approach

By: Wenzel Matiaske

£49.99

This study interprets networks as social capital. It fuses socioeconomic exchange theory with social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization.

Modernisation of Chinese Culture

Continuity and Change

Edited By: Jana S. Rošker, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

£54.99

This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.

Socrates and Dionysus

Philosophy and Art in Dialogue

Edited By: Ann Ward

£44.99

Nietzsche argued Socratic reason destroyed the tragic art of Dionysus, pitting science against art. But are they enemies? This volume challenges that division, exploring how artists and thinkers bridge the gap between the world of fact and the world of fiction.

Corporate Governance and Compliance with IFRSs

MENA Evidence

By: Marwa Hassaan

£49.99

This is the first book to examine how corporate governance improves compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in MENA stock exchanges. It identifies obstacles and suggests actions to globalize these emerging markets.

Aesthetic Fatigue

Modernity and the Language of Waste

Edited By: John F. M. Clark, John Scanlan

£49.99

Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the "language of waste" and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.

Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the “language of waste” and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.

Heimat Goes Mobile

Hybrid Forms of Home in Literature and Film

Edited By: Gabriele Eichmanns, Yvonne Franke

£44.99

The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.

Media, Technology and the Imagination

Edited By: Marie Hendry, Jennifer Page

£39.99

Technology is reshaping imagination itself. The essays in this volume explore the thrilling intersection of the digital and the creative as it transforms modern film, fiction, and art.

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men

Superheroes and the American Experience

Edited By: Julian C. Chambliss, Thomas Donaldson, William Svitavsky

From £34.99

This collection explores the superhero's evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

Educating for Peace

Edited By: Lokanath Mishra

£39.99

Peace education provides the skills to move from a culture of war to one of peace. This book lays a foundation for students, teachers, and peace educators to explore the elements necessary to create a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy

Edited By: Maria O'Neill, Ken Swinton, Aaron Winter

£49.99

Building on original research, this collection examines the EU's Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.

Building on original research, this collection examines the EU’s Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.

Building a Validity Argument for a Listening Test of Academic Proficiency

By: Vahid Aryadoust

£49.99

Using a modern approach, this book builds a validity argument for an IELTS listening test. It presents the first treatment of validity argument and analytical tools in one volume, mapping psychometric analysis onto the framework to improve language assessments.

Virgo to Virago

Medea in the Silver Age

By: Kirsty Corrigan

£49.99

Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.

Black Writers and the Left

Edited By: Kristen Moriah

£44.99

Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.

Focus on English Phonetics

Edited By: Tatjana Paunović, Biljana Čubrović

£49.99

Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume's diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.

Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.

Culture of Tobacco

An Ethnographic Enquiry into the Socio-Economic Mobility of Dalits of Rural India

By: Kranthi Kumar Chikkala

£44.99

This book explores the impact of tobacco cultivation on rural Andhra Pradesh. A comparative study of two villages reveals how this labor-intensive crop creates prosperity and changes social relationships, prompting a re-examination of agricultural policy.

Salome

The Image of a Woman Who Never Was; Salome

By: Rosina Neginsky

From £36.99

Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.

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